Howard Phillips (politics)
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Howard Jay Phillips February 3, 1941 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | April 20, 2013 (aged 72) Vienna, Virginia, U.S. |
| Political party |
Republican (Before 1974) Democratic (1974–1991) Constitution (1991–2013) |
| Spouse(s) | Peggy Blanchard (1964–2013) |
| Children |
Doug Amanda Brad Jennifer Alexandra Samuel |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Religion | Evangelicalism |
| Website | Official website |
Howard Jay Phillips (February 3, 1941 – April 20, 2013) was a three-time United States presidential candidate who served as the chairman of The Conservative Caucus, a conservative public policy advocacy group which he founded in 1991. Phillips was a founding member of the U.S. Taxpayers Party, which later became known as the Constitution Party.
Phillips was born into a Jewish family in Boston in 1941, Phillips converted to evangelical Christianity as an adult in the 1970s and has been associated with Christian Reconstructionism.
A 1962 graduate of Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was twice elected chairman of the Student Council, Phillips was president of Policy Analysis, Inc., a public policy research organization which publishes the bimonthly Issues and Strategy Bulletin.
Phillips resided in Fairfax County, Virginia in the Washington, D.C., suburbs with his wife, the former Margaret "Peggy" Blanchard.
During the Nixon Administration, Phillips headed two federal agencies, ending his Executive Branch career as director of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) in the Executive Office of the President for five months in 1973, a position from which he resigned when U.S. President Richard M. Nixon reneged on his commitment to veto further funding for Great Society programs begun in the administration of Nixon's predecessor, Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson.
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